Hi Adam, > I noticed that the vesa and fbdev X.org drivers were recently retired > from Rawhide. There appears to be no Change for this. The commit > messages for the retirements refer to this old Change: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceFbdevDrivers#Detailed_Description > > but that Change was for Fedora 36, and was considered "completed" at > the time with no removal of any X.org drivers. The scope of that Change > says nothing about retiring X.org drivers. > > This has had at least one substantial impact that somebody noticed: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/BU46CQS64XWVDANVXLXUE3KVLZLWPSG5/ > > booting with 'nomodeset', which has decades of history as a standard > workaround for having some kind of issue with the native driver for > your hardware, no longer works, it seems. > > To me this is a significant change which maybe should be a Change, not > just slipped in with reference to a Change from six releases ago which > did not have this in its scope. In all fallback cases it should be using simpledrm and the associated mesa driver. There's been a number of changes since the original F-36 change that has moved a bunch of that stuff forward to the point that there's little to no fbdev left, did you mean vesa? I don't see enough info on that thread to tell. P -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
